Theories of cognition and image categorization: What category labels reveal about basic level theory

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1383-1392

  Rorissa, Abebe ^a   Iyer, Hemalata ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWSING SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE MODELLING; DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS; IMAGE CATEGORIZATION; IMAGE INDEXING; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SPACES; RETRIEVAL (MIR); RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; USER CENTERED DESIGN (UCD);

FLOW INTERACTIONS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; LABELS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES;

LABELING;

EID: 47049086347     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20825     Document Type: Article

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